Intel Core i7-3517U vs Intel Pentium N4200

Core i7-3517U vs Pentium N4200 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3517U beats the Pentium N4200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3517U. Indeed, the Pentium N4200 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3517U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3517U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i7-3517U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3517U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.